DigiCert Industry Leadership

DigiCert industry leadership

Setting the global standard for trust

Leading the way to more secure, standards-based interactions 

Security is only as strong as the standards that define and govern its use. That’s why DigiCert is actively involved in a wide variety of industry efforts and partnerships across the globe.

DigiCert Industry Leadership

Our involvement

CA/B Forum

IETF

ASC X9

Connectivity Standards Alliance (CSA), Matter (Formerly known as ZigBee and CHIP)

Sovrin

AeroMacs

A3SA

SAE Electric Vehicle Charging Project

MDIC Medical Device Innovation Consortium

Telecom Infra Project

CA/B Forum

www.cabforum.org

The CA/Browser Forum, established in 2005, is comprised of certification authorities and browser software vendors and is charged with creating certificate standards for TLS as well as digital software signing and secure email communications

Working Group chairs
Ballot drafters 
Technical participation

Server Certificate Working Group, Validation subcommittee:
Corey Bonnell, Chair

S/MIME (Secure Mail) Working Group: Stephen Davidson, Chair

Code Signing Working Group: Dean Coclin, Chair

IETF

IETF.org

The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), founded in 1986, is the premiere standards development organization (SDO) for the Internet. The IETF makes voluntary standards that are often adopted by Internet users, network operators, and equipment vendors, and it thus helps shape the trajectory of the development of the Internet.

Working group Participants
Working group Co-chairs

TLS Working Group:  
Tim Hollebeek, Participant
Corey Bonell, Participant

Limited Additional Mechanisms for PKIX and SMIME (LAMPS) Working Group:  
Tim Hollebeek, Co-chair

ACE Working Group:
Tim Hollebeek, Chair

ACME Working Group:
Tomofumi Okubo, Chair

ASC X9

www.x9.org

The Accredited Standards Committee X9 (ASC X9) in support of the financial services industry has the mission to create and maintain US and International standards that improve payments and securities transactions, protect data and facilitate information exchange.

Standards and Study Group Chairs

X9F5 PKI Standards Group:  
Tim Hollebeek, Chair

PKI Study Group:  
Dean Coclin, Chair

Quantum Risk Study Group: 
Tim Hollebeek, Co-Chair

Connectivity Standards Alliance (CSA), Matter (Formerly known as ZigBee and CHIP)

https://csa-iot.org/all-solutions/matter/  

The Connectivity Standards Alliance ignites creativity and collaboration in the Internet of Things, by developing, evolving, and promoting universal open standards that enable all objects to securely connect and interact.

Contributors

Tim Hollebeek
Tom Klein
Mike Nelson
Corey Bonnell

Sovrin

www.sovrin.org  

The Sovrin Foundation is a 501 (c)(4) nonprofit organization established to administer the Governance Framework governing the Sovrin Network, a public service utility enabling self-sovereign identity on the internet. The Sovrin Foundation is an independent organization that is responsible for ensuring the Sovrin identity system is public and globally accessible.

Technical Board Member
Validator Node

Avest Hojjati, Board Member

AeroMacs

https://wimaxforum.org/Page/AeroMACS

Aeronautical Mobile Airport Communication System (AeroMACS) is a wireless broadband technology that supports the increasing need for data communications and information sharing on the airport surface for both fixed and mobile applications.

Standard created
Root created
Forum Membership

Mike Nelson

A3SA

https://a3sa.com/

A3SA is a broadcaster consortium to design and standardize a specification for secure transmission of content. 

Root of trust
Standard established

SAE Electric Vehicle Charging Project

https://www.sae.org/attend/electric-vehicle-charging-infrastructure-conference

DigiCert is involved in implementation framework design for ISO standard 15118-2

Mike Nelson
Lance Handorf

MDIC Medical Device Innovation Consortium

https://mdic.org/

DigiCert is involved in standardizing the use of 5G and creating guidance for security in the healthcare industry.

Mike Nelson

Telecom Infra Project

https://telecominfraproject.com/

Telecom Infra is an organization dedicated to delivering secure Wi-Fi hot spots within rural communities. 

Selected as root of trust. 
Standard created 

Mike Nelson

DigiCert Industry Leadership

Government-Related Groups

NIST National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE)

European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI)